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• n  bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

• One man's mission to bring affordable, high-quality violins to the world.
• The sound of Stradivari's violins has never been fully explained by modern research.
• Few living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins.

• fiddle

News & Articles

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• Sunflower musicians to perform demanding repertoire
  When the violinist who debuted Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello complained it was so complicated that "no one's going to play it but virtuosos, the composer responded, "Good, then I shan't be assassinated by amateurs!"It will be the pros playing it and works by Carl Nielsen and Johannes Brahms when the world-class musicians of the 27th Sunflower Music Festival present a chamber ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Topeka Capital-Journal
• HP Grabs New Generation of Storage with Discover Announcements
  The storage marketplace is hot with revolutionary technologies that promise to totally disrupt the marketplace. Flash storage startups like Violin and Fusion-io are challenging the established big system vendors, while simultaneously software-led storage is sweeping storage into the virtualized infrastructure … Continue reading ?
  June 11, 2013 - SiliconANGLE
• For Detroit teen, playing violin soothes stress of life
  Grandearmere Burton cradles the violin under his chin. The bow glides across the strings, filling the air with Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in A Minor, and his father's absence fades for a bit.
  June 10, 2013 - Detroit News

Quotes

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• Jay Greenberg in Washington Post
  At one point in my life, I resolved that I would never write a violin concerto,Greenberg said in the program notes. "I no longer recall why exactly I made this resolution; perhaps it was sour grapes, as all of my attempts at violin writing...
• Rachael Taylor in Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
  The guitar and the sitar are obviously related - even linguistically. The oud moves west from Persia to become the lute; it moves east to become the pipa. And a European hears an erhu and says it's purely Chinese, a Chinese violin, but in Chinese... Yo-Yo Ma http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErUW0-hneR-2ACdJoVDk8GFSKNwA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/08/america/NA-GEN-US-Ma-Silk-Road.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAAAHNSS2Eh1RRCywuaU0WYrkfvw Apr 8, 2007 108074 141728 violin The violin is terrifying, it's a confronting part, and I wasn't sure I was properly prepared for it. You don't want to embarrass yourself, Richard's been developing this project for six years, I told him he deserved somebody who felt capable,"...